We're not sure who exactly needs a three-screened portable computer -- mobile video editors?
Al Gore? -- but Acme Portable isn't about to let any segment of the market wither away, no matter how absurd: its LPG370TS "3 LCD Surround System" is a beast, with three foldout 17-inch screens and a built-in keyboard and mouse. A real step up from the
bolt-on prototype we peeped back at CeBIT. The machine itself is no slouch, either, with a 2.4GHz Q6600 Core 2 Quad, dual SLI NVIDIA 8800GTX graphics cards to drive those displays, 2GB of RAM, and a 650-watt power supply. Yeah, that's portable. No word on price or availability, but something tells us it's not going to be a small number.
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posted Oct 18th 2007 12:02PM
they stole my idea!
So when are they going to make the 42in laptop
No no, a box with a keyboard on it and trackpoint with a built in projector!
huh- dual video cards to run 3 screens. someone enlighten as to how this would work well and have equal performance on all three screens?
maybe something like matrox triple head to go?
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gxm/products/th2go/digital/home.php
or voodoo science.. i vote for the later
Welllll
If you didn't SLI, the first card would operate 2 monitors (presumably the outer two) with the card running at 16x. Then one card running the middle monitor running at 8x. It's not perfect, and would be horribly ineffcient if the cards COULD SLI, but it would have equal performance on the three monitors.
Adittionally, if you gave the middle monitor more GPU time, and better performance, i don't think anyone would notice or really care. It would work well regardless of how it's configured.
You're obviously not up on what SLI cards are capable of.. The whole idea is that the cards work perfectly in concert to construct image output, much like a cell processor. Splitting the image up onto three screens has been possible since the nineties. Where have you been for the past 10 years?
It works fine. This system is probably using a display merger, so the 3 displays combine together to be one display, according to the system (i.e. 3840 * 1024). Thats the only way it will work with SLI video cards, since dual-monitor setups dont work with SLI unless you 1. disable SLI and have each card render for each monitor or 2. Get the Matrox device to combine 2 (or 3) displays into one resolution.
A few games wont be able to use that resolution effectively like RTS, which would be better with 2 graphics cards in non-sli. But for FPS, racing games, etc., it would be cool.
why wouldn't it? granted it probably wouldn't be the best performance, but with 2 8800 GTXs I don't imagine it would be hurting too much. Can probly get decent performance on Crysis with this thing.
Easy -- SLI rig so (I'm assuming AFR) one huge framebuffer, one card drives two monitors, the othe drives one monitor.
The actual output from the framebuffer is separate from (and much easier than) the rendering, so no performance hit.
I was about to say that this is just a portable version of the Matrox TripleHead2Go, but bjrcboy beat me to it.
I have the TH2G with three 19" flat panels, and it's absolutely astounding to play games in a 3.75:1 aspect ratio or have a desktop in 3840 x 1024 resolution with a DVD playing in one screen, a browser in another, and OpenOffice in another. :)
I have 3 Sony P234 monitors and a Matrox Digital TripleHead2Go, 2 Radeon X1900 inside a PowerMac G5 2.5ghz Quad core and playing some games in it is AWESOME! Frame rates depend on you hardware/settings.
If I am not using the Matrox Trip2Go the the 1st video card with dual outputs are connected to monitor 1 & 2. 2nd video card is connect to monitor 3. If I am using the Trip2Go then the 3 monitors connect to the Trip2Go and the Trip2Go connects the 1st video card preferably the 1st DVI port and also to a USB port on your PC for power. Video cards are not running in SLI.
Gaming is Awesome WHEN/IF you configure the game. Most games are available for PC not the MAC and running the Trip2Go on the PC is even easier for support. And yes I did get Doom running on my MAC. It Rocks!
This link might help you out some more!
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTM5Myw3LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==
The LPG370TS "3 LCD Surround System" would be KICK A$$ at a LAN Party!
Clearly it's for catching roadrunners. It's about time Acme entered the digital age. They still make pretty good anvils and rocket-skates, though.
beat Jeff to it... and me. Yup, gotta pack some serious power to catch a beast like the roadrunner :)
So I guess ACME has gotten out of the business of producing things like fireworks, trampolines and rocket-powered roller skates?
This portable actually is the remote for launching rocket bombs.
yeah, after Wile E. Coyote's numerous failed attempts at capturing Roadrunner, ACME pulled out as main sponsors.
That's ok: http://www.rr.com/flash/index.cfm?rev=10276&division=279
I think I'll go for the Eee instead.
...that's supposed to be portable? It looks like a really bulky briefcase full of screen, with 2 foldable squares attached to it. Weight, anyone? Battery life, anyone?
Portable is not necesary to be on battery. I had a portable Panasonic 3030 something which was an XT 8088 with a built-in CGA-screen. It was portable but no batteries what so ever. I loved that thing! I even added a hardrive-card (a full-size ISA-slot RLL-card with a 20MB harddrive). I think the drive had 1 in interleave.. a really fast little sucker.
So THAT'S what happens when you send a Compaq III portable 20 years into the future!
http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/CompaqIIIportable.htm
This would be extremely hot for college. I would love one of these in my dorm. I could game like hell all the time in anybody's room, Perfect! The only problem is, I don't think the whole three screens thing would go down well in a cramped lecture auditorium.
ACME is a real company?
Yes they exists and they are the creators of :
-Mass destruction weapon detector (used in Iraq).
-Gizmondo console.
-Motorola RARZ.
-And the latest VII console.
Like many things, this has it's roots in the military. This looks like a typical field command&control workstation or imagery exploitation.
http://www.maxvision.com/
Their 3 monitor version can be yours for only $24,063
This laptop will revolutionize the porn industry.
two words......"three angles".
Slap the guts of the NewTek Tricaster Studio in there too and you got yourself a real portable production system.
Perfect for Rookie filmmakers to edit on the go while filming. Sales reps who setup booths at conventions or in home presentations. Their are many applicable uses for the setup.
Acme? They make some pretty cool stuff, but it seems like their products are prone to malfunction. At least, it seems to work that way for Wile E. Coyote
LOL! You beat me to it!
Acme, eh?
Roadrunner better watch out. Coyote will undoubtedly have a lot at his disposal with this.
Oh, did I just date myself? :)
(For those of you who didn't get the reference... nevermind).
Who'd buy this? Gamers, traders, video editors.
I would love to have the portable 3-LCD setup alone so I could hook it up to my laptop.
ACME really exists?
It's not a ficticious company from Warner-Brothers cartoons?
Just got an email back from them.
Pricing for the model described (LPG370TS) is $8800.
They also have another model (LPG370TS-S02) with dual processors and RAID among other things for a massive $13,830.
PDFs for it can be found here:
http://duckies.org/~peter/acme/LPG370TS-price.pdf
http://duckies.org/~peter/acme/LPG370TS-S02-price.pdf